Learning and economic policy choices with an application to IMF agreements

I discuss the role of learning in economic policy choices. I test whether choices of policies are driven by experience under them. A Bayesian approach is adopted to tackle this issue and hence, the paper is also an account of the possibilities and limits of this approach. The decision to sign IMF agreements is used as illustration. The model of rational learning suggests that governments are more likely to enter into agreements with the IMF after learning from their own and from the world experience that average results under agreements are better. Also, governments are prone to take risks when they observe very good performers under IMF agreements at the world and at the regional level. However, they are unlikely to continue under a policy that is costly as soon as growth resumes in the region. The rationalistic reading of this behavior is that governments avoid remaining under a costly policy in isolation. A more detailed research is needed in order to adjudicate among this account of switches and an alternative one that emphasizes deviations to the rational rule as the ultimate cause of choices

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Apuntes sobre la poética de Gloria Fuertes

Algunos aspectos de la poética de Gloria Fuertes.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Mis primeros Clásicos Poéticos

A partir de indagar sobre la memoria y los recuerdos, el profesor y escritor Antonio A. Gómez Yebra ofrece un recorrido de situaciones, emociones, anécdotas y experiencias con la lectura y la literatura desde sus primeros años escolares, volviendo la mirada hacia la escuela de antaño de la mano de evocaciones literarias de poemas, cuentos, novelas, ensayos, etc., de los principales autores y autoras que configuraron su poética, destacando también, a modo de homenaje, a las maestras, profesores, escritores, que le enseñaron, despertaron y estimularon el amor por la lectura.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Utopía y distopía en el territorio homoerótico de The Swimming-pool Library, The Folding Star and The Spell de Alan Hollinghurst

This essay aims at exploring the use of pastoral Arcadia as a privileged territory for English homoerotic literature to unfold, putting special emphasis on Alan Hollinghurst’s first three novels so far. With this purpose, I think particularly worth noting Terry Gifford’s Pastoral (1999), where he points out the main characteristics of classic pastoral –a utopian genre deeply embedded in English landscape culture and writing–, as well as the dystopian anti-pastoral and post-pastoral. With this in mind, the essay delves into Hollinghurst’s novels to determine whether and, if so, how they make use, update or re-negotiate pastoral traditions to meet the needs of gay writing at the turn of the millennium. Este artículo pretende explorar el uso de la Arcadia pastoril como un terrero privilegiado para el desarrollo de la literatura homoerótica inglesa, haciendo especial énfasis en las tres novelas que Alan Hollinghurst ha publicado hasta la fecha. Con este fin, me parece relevante hacer referencia a Pastoral (1999), donde Terry Gifford explica las principales características de la literatura pastoril clásica –un género utópico firmemente arraigado en la literatura paisajística inglesa–, así como del anti-pastoralismo y el post-pastoralismo distópicos. Así, este ensayo ahonda en las novelas de Hollinghurst para determinar si, y si es así, cómo éstas utilizan, actualizan o renegocian las diferentes tradiciones pastoriles para satisfacer las necesidades de la literatura gay en el cambio de milenio